Testimonial from students of Mandarin Class

"Cigi was absolutely excellent, thank you! She's a very gifted teacher -  professional, friendly, encouraging, helpful and a delightful personality. :)  I couldn't have asked for more - it was extremely helpful and I wouldn't hesitate to book in with her again if I should need more help in the future." (Heather Bush, Private Lessons, January 2012)

"Cigi was a great tutor. She made learning Mandarin easier than expected and fun." (Brighter 2, Corporate Training 2011)

"Cigi is an excellent teacher and we have had a really good time learning with her. She is always punctual, energetic, supportive and good-humoured." (Norm Lee, AMP Capital, Corporate Training 2011)

"We are very pleased with how things are going and particularly the trainer. Anne Ma is wonderful and a great teacher. We feel that we have learnt well in such a short time. As a corporate group we are not as quiet as perhaps other groups may be, and Anne is handling us very well." (John Van Gastel, Gregory Jewellers, Corporate Training 2011)

"Cigi expanded the topic & context of the book/course, makes the class very interesting."  (Mandarin Beginner 1 Student, September -November 2011 Session)

"Teacher was very enthusiastic."  (Mandarin Beginner 1 Student, 2011 Session)

"No pressure, Friendly Atmosphere."  (Mandarin Beginner 1 Student, 2011 Session)

"Thank you very much to Cigi. A great teacher!"  (Mandarin Beginner 1 Student, 2011 Session)

"Cigi has a good approach and makes te class enjoyable."  (Mandarin Beginner 1 Student, 2010 Session)

"Very happy with the course and Cigi."  (Vicici Cman, 2010 Session)

“Thank you Sydney Language Solutions for your assistance in my quest to learn Mandarin during July – October 2010. I have thoroughly enjoyed my lessons with my private tutor over the past weeks. I am very satisfied with your professionalism, excellent resources, quality and well-trained staff as well as teaching practices. I was able to learn in a supportive environment with great flexibility and encouragement. Once again thank you and I look forward to further lessons in 2011.” (Thuy Van Nguyen, 2010 session)

 

 

Meet Mandarin Teacher of SLS

Anne Ma

Qualifications:
Anne Ma has Master of Teaching degree from Griffith University, and has accredited teaching registration for teaching mainstream classes in Australian educational system. She also has Bachelor of Art degree in Business English from Fudan University, one the leading universities in mainland China. In addition, she will soon be completing another graduate teaching degree at University of New South Wales specialising in Chinese language and ESL teaching.

Work Experience : 
Anne Ma has had five-year working experience with Würth, which is a German multi-national trading group that has more than 380 subsidiaries all over the world with annual sales turnover of 80 billion Euros. She worked there as a category manager, in charge of purchasing, SAP training to product management team and also PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) product know-how  training to sales managers within the group. Thanks to her work, Anne travelled around, both in Asian region and Europe; therefore she gained rich experience of cooperating with people from various cultural backgrounds. She is specialised in business process and culture in China and the Asia as a whole. Moreover, Anne had teaching experience not only in Australia public school (Labrador State School), private school (The Southport School) and other learning institution (Kumon Study Centre) as well. She is passionate about her culture & language, and would like to share her knowledge and experience with all of you.

Cigi Zhong

Jing Hao

Qualifications: 

Current PhD candidate in Department of Linguistics, The University of Sydney. 

Graduated with Merit on the Degree of Master of Letters (Research Master on Linguistics) in The University of Sydney. 

Work Experience :

Jing Hao has many years of teaching experience of Mandarin to both children and adults in many private institutions in Sydney.

her research interests include educational linguistics, particularly the curriculum and course design, English for academic purpose and Language typology - the Chinese and English language comparison, especially grammar and pronunciation.

 

 

 

Mandarin for Beginners - Intensive Course

New intensive courses starting from Monday, 9 January 2012 - Friday, 3 February 2012.

This course is perfect for people who will go overseas on Christmas Holiday!!!

Don’t just come to the country, speak their language and get a different experience!

Course Duration:      4 weeks (2 days per week), 2 hour session per day

Course Fee:              $290 for 8 classes (including FREE Training material)  

Class size:                4-8 students

Level:                         Beginner 1 (for complete Beginners)

Upcoming classes:   Wednesday (Starting from 11/1/2012) from 06:30-08:30pm & Friday from 06:00-08:00pm

In case that there are only 3 students enrolled, students will be asked to share the cost of $1160 together.

Please call us 9283 9892 or email info@sydneylanguagesolutions.com.au if you and your friends want to join this course together and we will arrange it for you.

   

For payment purpose, please select the payment option of $290 (Beginners 2) when you enrol to the intensive course

 

4-hour Mandarin workshops for travellers

Upcoming workshop: Please contact us at 02 9283 9892 or info@sydneylanguagesolutions.com.au for more information

Fee: $80

• This workshop is intended for travellers or visitors who will visit China in the next 3 months, who want to have a very basic Mandarin language and understanding about the country.
• It is designed for those who do not have time to come to class for 10 consecutive weeks or who just want to have a brief knowledge about the language and culture.
• The workshop is 4 hour, which is on Sunday every month. In the workshop, you will be taught some basic survival Mandarin expressions, some cultural dos and donts, some basic tips to bargain, survive and handle the traffic.
• You may also watch a short version of Chinese movie. You can prepare questions and we will try our best to inform you
• You are recommended to buy a Lonely Planet Guide in Chinese and bring with you on the day.

   

 

Mandarin for Beginners/Travellers

Who is this course for?

For learners who have no knowledge of the language and want to know simple words and phrases for a short visit to China.

For learners who have no knowledge of the language and want to begin a course of study to be able to communicate with a Mandarin speaker/partner or friend.

Detailed Program: 

Lesson 1  - Brief Introductions and Phonetics

Lesson 2  - Greetings

Lesson 3  - Chinese Names

Lesson 4  - My Chinese needs improvement

Lesson 5  - Family Members

Lesson 6  - My pronunciation is bad

Lesson 7  - I want....

Lesson 8  - Ordering food in restaurant

Lesson 9  - I like music

Lesson 10 - Sports

Course Fee:                   $270 (including FREE training materials)  

Course Duration:          10 weeks, 2 hour per week (20 HOURS IN TOTAL)

Class size:                     4-8 students

Upcoming classes:     

Thursday, 23 February 2012 from 06:30-08:30pm

Please call 9283 9892 or fill an on-line 'Book a Free Trial Class Form if you wish to sit a FREE trial class in the Beginner classes

   

 

Mandarin for Beginners 2

Who is this course for?

For learners who have finished about 20 to 40 hours of training in Mandarin and understood PinYin system.

For learners who have Mandarin background and can understand the language a little bit but cannot speak or do not know how to build up a sentence in Mandarin

For learners who used to live in China and know about the language but have forgotten the most part of it or simply want to review the language.

Upcoming classes:    Tuesday, 27 March 2012 from 06:30-08:30pm

Course Fee:                  $290 (including training materials)

Course Duration:         10 weeks, 2 hour per week (20 HOURS IN TOTAL)

Class size:                    4-8 students

Teacher:                        Ciqi Zhe Zhong

Detailed Program: 

Lesson 1  - Happy Birthday

Lesson 2  - Asking for locations

Lesson 3  - Asking the time

Lesson 4  - Booking Tickets

Lesson 5  - Talking about the weather

Lesson 6  - Number

Lesson 7  - Bargaining

Lesson 8  - Nations and Nationality

Lesson 9  - Ordering drinks or a meal

Lesson 10 - Review and Test

   

 

Mandarin for Pre-Intermediate Learners 1

For learners who have the ability to understand simple sentences and want to improve in vocabulary and fluency.

This course for students who have finished about 100 hours of training in Mandarin Beginner 1 and 2.

Upcoming classes:    Monday, 26 March 2012 from 06:30-08:30pm

Course Fee:                  $320

Course Duration:        10 weeks, 2-hour session each week (21 HOURS IN TOTAL)

Class size:                    4- 8 students

Text book:                   New Practical Chinese Reader Textbook (Book 2) - Beijing Language and Culture University Press

Detailed Program: 

Lesson 1:       Expressing one’s ability - Expressing permission or prohibition

Lesson 2:       Talking about one’s health

Lesson 3:       Talking about something that has happened

Lesson 4:       Expressing holiday greetings

Lesson 5:       Changing money at the bank

Lesson 6:       Making new friends

Lesson 7:       Describing things - Comparing things -  Buying clothes

Lesson 8:       At the post office

Lesson 9:       Talking about hobbies

Lesson 10:     Asking for reasons - Hurrying somebody up -  New Year’s greetings

     

 

Mandarin for Pre-Intermediate Learners 2

For learners who have finished about 160 hours of training in Mandarin Beginner 1, 2 and Mandarin Preintermediate 1.

Upcoming classes:    Please contact us at 02 9283 9892 or info@sydneylanguagesolutions.com.au for more information

Course Fee:                   $320

Course Duration:        14 weeks, 1.5 hour session each week (21 HOURS IN TOTAL)

Class size:                    4- 6 students

Text book:                   New Practical Chinese Reader Textbook (Book 2) - Beijing Language and Culture University Press

Detailed Program:  

Lesson 1:       Asking about direction

Lesson 2:       Looking for a job - Making an appointment or a date with someone

Lesson 3:       Talking about plans - Making suggestions

Lesson 4:       Talking about an action in progress - Talking about living conditions

Lesson 5:       Visiting a patient

Lesson 6:         Chinese master (review)

Lesson 7:         Chinese proverbs

Lesson 8:         Words in groups

Lesson 9:         Words in groups

Lesson 10:       Review/Test/ Chinese food

     

 

Business Mandarin - Beginners

For learners who have no knowledge of the language and want to know simple words and phrases for a short visit to China for business purposes.

For learners who have no knowledge of the language and want to begin a course of study to be able to communicate with a Mandarin speaker clients or colleagues.

Upcoming classes   : Please contact us at 02 9283 9892 or info@sydneylanguagesolutions.com.au for more information

Course Duration   :   10 weeks - 2 Hours a week (20 hours in total)

Class Size   :             4-8 Students

Course Fee   :           $300 (Including Training Materials)

Detailed Program:   

Week 1 - Hello

Week 2 - Who is he?

Week 3 - My Friends

Week 4 - How to address a person

Week 5 - Making Telephone Calls

Week 6 - Booking a room

Week 7 - Changing Money

Week 8 - Taxi

Week 9 - What do you want to do?

Week 10 - Revision and practice

   

 

Business Mandarin - Preintermediate (PINYIN - No Writing)

This class is designed for learners:

1. who have finished about 40 to 100 hours of training in Mandarin Beginner 1 and 2

2. can understand PinYin system.

3. want to improve Speaking skill in business context.

Upcoming classes   : Please contact us at 02 9283 9892 or info@sydneylanguagesolutions.com.au for more information

Course Duration   :   10 weeks - 2 Hours a week (20 hours in total)

Class Size   :             4-8 Students

Course Fee   :           $320 (Including Training Materials)

Detailed Program:

Week 1 - Can you speak Chinese?

Week 2 - Do you know how to make purchases?

Week 3 - What's the matter with her?

Week 4 - Whose fault is it?

Week 5 - Where do you live?

Week 6 - What's the weather like today (1)?

Week 7 - What's the weather like today (2)?

Week 8 - Going Sightseeing in Beijing (1)

Week 9 - Going Sightseeing in Beijing (2)

Week 10 - Revision and practice

   

 

Mandarin for Intermediate Learners

For learners who have the ability to understand fairly complex sentence structures and want to improve in vocabulary and fluency.

     

 

Mandarin for Advanced Learners

For learners who have the ability to understand most conversations and want to correct any grammar or pronunciation errors.

     

 

Mandarin for Home Speakers (Level 1)

Who should join the course?

This 10-week course is a specially designed program for those who have Mandarin background. It is for those who can understand spoken Mandarin quite a lot, but can only speak a little bit Mandarin or read few Chinese characters.

What will be offered in the course?

This course will help you to build up the Mandarin language skills particularly in speaking, reading and writing. It is a short and intensive course that offers you not only the systematic grammar rules which can help you in sentence-making, but also the efficient ways to memorise and understand Chinese characters. In addition, basic writing skills such as shopping list writing, note writing and diary writing will also be taught during the course.

This course will cover authentic daily life topics such as time, directions, family, food, shopping, traffic, and hobbies etc.

Expected learning outcome:

Know all the basic strokes that can compose all the Chinese characters

• Understand Mandarin writing as a semantic writing system
  

• Able to speak, read and write common Chinese characters
  

• Understand common Chinese character combinations/phrases
  

• Able to build up sentences in familiar situations not only in speaking but also in reading and writing as well
  

What’s special about the course?

• Teaching material
• It will also include some general knowledge about Chinese history, geography and culture

Upcoming class:  Please contact us at 02 9283 9892 or info@sydneylanguagesolutions.com.au for more information

Duration:                 10 weeks, 2 hours each week

Cost:                        $290

Class size:             4-8 students

** We need at least 4 students to start this course, so please enrol if you find your level is suitable with the placement test, so the class can start.

     

 

Mandarin for Home Speakers (Level 2)

Who should join the course?

This 10-week course is a specially designed program for those who have Mandarin background. It is for those who can speak Mandarin well but cannot read and write Mandarin.

What will be offered in the course?

This course will help you to build up the Mandarin language skills particularly in reading and writing. It will cover daily topic such as time, money, nature, favourite colour, feelings, entertainment, animals, post office, accommodation, seeing a doctor, clothes, travelling.

Effective ways will be taught to efficiently memorise and understand Chinese characters. Written Mandarin grammar rules will be introduced to prepare you for Mandarin writing tasks. Basic writing skills such as shopping list writing, note writing, diary writing and letter writing will also be taught during the course.

Expected learning outcome:

Know all the basic strokes that can compose all the Chinese characters

• Understand Mandarin writing as a semantic writing system

• Able to read and write common Chinese characters

• Understand common Chinese character combinations/phrases

• Able to build up sentences in familiar situations not only in speaking but also in reading and writing as well

What’s special about the course?

• Teaching material
• It will also include some general knowledge about Chinese history, geography and culture

Upcoming class:  Please contact us at 02 9283 9892 or info@sydneylanguagesolutions.com.au for more information

Duration:                 10 weeks, 2 hours each week

Cost:                         $320

Class size:              4-8 students

Text book:               New Practical Chinese Reader Textbook (Book 1) - Beijing Language and Culture University Press

Please email mandarin@sydneylanguagesolutions.com.au if you have any questions or concern about the suitability of your level with the class.

   

 

Mandarin for Children

We also provide a special program for Chinese children where they can learn to decipher the Chinese alphabet, tone, etc.

   

 

Mandarin for the HSC

The HSC course provides complete preparation for the HSC in Mandarin and covers the skills and knowledge required in the Stage 6 syllabus for the HSC examination.

• We use all assessment tasks supported by the board of studies and past HSC exam papers including listening CDs in our lessons to intensively support students to prepare for HSC exams.

• We are also in regular contact with high school teachers, which allows us to keep up to date with any changes in curricula and have a source of valuable and current teaching materials.

   

 

Mandarin Skype Lesson

We also offer private Mandarin lessons via Skype.

Lesson Time:

1) Monday-Friday 01:00-06:00PM

2) Saturday 10:00AM-06:00PM

Price List:

1 lesson------------ $70 (90 minutes)

5 lessons-----------$340 (450 minutes)

We are very flexible in any topics that you would like to learn.

Also, we can help your homework or train you with a specific exam, if you give us your material which you are studying currently.

Please send us your material which you would like to study AT LEAST 1 week in advance via e-mail/SCANNING to info@sydneylanguagesolutions.com.au

To book:

Please call 9283 9892 and book using your credit card or pay by Direct Deposit to our bank account. After that please email us to confirm info@sydneylanguagesolutions.com.au

Our Skype username: sydney.language.solutions